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any one Particular, that you can be the better for in that respect
when you come back again — as every Particular you will find
there will be so different from what is to be met with in your
own; nor can you, without that previous practical knowledge, be
able to form any comparative Judgment of Either. you tell me
you shew'd my last Letter to Mr Mulford, if you did, you shod have
Shew'd him my former Letters, & let him have known what were
my sentiments of the whole matter, but those other Letters I find you
had sent up to your Brother, not with a view of giving them
the Consideration, they might deserve, but to assist you with the
means of invalidating the reasons I had given for my disapproving
of your going abroad; when I have mentioned talk'd to your Brother about your
Scheme of going abroad, & mention'd my Objections to him, he has desir'd
me not to say any thing to him upon the Subject, under the pretense
that his thoughts were so much engag'd about his own work, yt
it broke in too much upon them to think of yours, but as soon as
you had wrote that long Letter to him, about your Scheme, &
in wch. you mention'd the several Encouragements you had met
with from your Russian Acquaintances for undertaking it, he took
an opportunity of coming to me, & reading so much of it as he
thought wod induce me to give into measures wch. he himself
considered as feasable; & wch. from his manner I cod collect
he thought unanswerable; and in favour of wch. I found him
too much prejudiced to be willing I shod enter into an argument
with him upon the Subject - but you neither of you consider, that in
Shutting your Ears against my opinion, or precluding me from giving
it, you lose ye only Chance you have of viewing the other side the
question, wch. it is the Concern of a Parent to Exhibit, & wch. tho' it
might be the Concern of any one other friend you have, no other Friend
wod give himself the trouble to do it. The answer Mr. Mulford gave
to what I suggested to you about money matters, was just what I
expected he wod give you; but it has answer'd my view in putting you
upon it; it proves or may prove to you, that he neither considers your
Interest, nor is willing to trust you; If he had friendship enough for
you to have consider'd your Interest, he wod have considered your
application to him, in this light, (especially as you let him see it
proceeded from me) that in lending you £50 or £100 for a 12 Month
it might be a means of preventing you the necessity of Selling out
so much of your Bank Annuities as wod produce that, now that
the funds are so low, & that in a years time, by their Rise
in case of a Peace, or other favourable circumstance happening, it

Identifier: | JB/538/329/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1779-06-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	329	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremiah Bentham	Watermarks
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